When many people talk about "Miss", they focus on the large-scale lesbian sex scenes and the delicate daily love between lesbians.
This movie can be said to be silent for men and tears for women. After all, the men in it are described as very unbearable and obscene, which reminds me of what brother Jia Baoyu said in "A Dream of Red Mansions", "My daughter is made of water. The flesh and blood of men, men are flesh and blood made of clay. When I meet my daughter, I feel refreshed; when I meet a man, I feel stinky and stinky.” Jia Baoyu’s words, in director Park Zanyu’s camera, in the plot of “Miss” Here, it is really confirmed.
Park Chan-wook knows how to show the beauty of women under the camera. The chicness of the young lady in reading, the elegance in dressing, the sexiness in bathing, and even the tension of having sex with a maid are all captured beautifully and poignantly.
There are obviously a lot of scenes that objectify women in the movie, but they make women feel not angry but distressed when they see it, because Jin Minxi's literary face "not happy with things, not sad with himself" is also because of the director. Probably really shooting with a heart in awe of women.
The femininity of "Miss" is that when the wretched uncle and the cunning gentleman thought he was in control of everything and could play with the fate of the lady at will, they didn't know that they fell into the middle of the game between the lady and the maid. Men think they are playing a big chess game, but they are actually the pieces on the chessboard. At the end of the movie, the young lady and the maid are in love with each other, leaving a wretched uncle and a gentleman to torture each other, which is very pleasing.
I have no intention to talk about how detailed the erotic description of this film is, nor to talk about Kim Min-hee's private life off-screen. What I value more is that this film stirs up the nerves of the male-dominated society.
The uncle in the movie is a character with absolute patriarchal authority. He is in a high position, and all the women in the family must crawl under his feet. The uncle is a lecherous old bookworm, with all the bad habits of old men, greasy, domineering, and immature. He raised the young lady and trained her into a plaything for the old man to recite erotic novels for the old man to relieve his boredom. This kind of plot makes the female audience helpless and resentful.
But in the second half of the movie, when the maid escaped with the young lady, the maid ripped up the erotic novels that the young lady had recited one by one in the uncle's library, and destroyed the uncle's collection one by one, and the female audience A sense of pride arises spontaneously, as if he is tearing the book with his own hands. This is a woman's resistance to the product of male sexual obscenity, and her dissatisfaction with her position. The old man thought that he could control the young lady's life through power and wealth, but he didn't know that all this could be easily overthrown and destroyed by the young lady.
Later, the maid was admitted to a mental hospital. In order to save the maid, the lady pretended to cater to the gentleman, flirted and moaned in front of him, and then drugged the gentleman. When the gentleman woke up, the lady had already rolled up all the money and ran away, while the gentleman lay on the ground without pants and looked ridiculous like a clown. This paragraph is a mockery of men's power by women, and the false promise of love for so long is just to give you a fatal blow at the end. It reminds me of David Fincher's Gone Girl, and when you finally debunk your wife's lies, it's because she's too lazy to act in front of you.
At the end, the lady repaired a boy's head, put on a suit, tied a bow tie, and fled abroad with the maid. The lady dressed in men's clothes is handsome and neat, which means the final liberation of women, they finally no longer have to live in the shadow of men, so many years of captive life have ended, and the destination of this ship is called "freedom".
You see, even though the film "Miss" has a lot of erotic scenes (well, I'm also going for erotic scenes), its intention is very far-reaching, so erotic films can also have a deep heart. Even the erotic scenes in it contain the meaning of liberating women's desire.
The patriarchal society has always regarded women too much, and believes that women must be obedient, virtuous, and virtuous, and know love, patience, and kindness. If you don’t tolerate your husband cheating, you don’t know patience. I'm sorry, this kind of woman can't survive two episodes in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
But now, society is evolving, and women's self-awareness has awakened. They not only have to live to the end in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but also "will be willing to cut the emperor down." The male chambers confronted each other. However, in the past two years, feminism has been criticized in China. Chinese netizens have even created a new term called "Chinese Pastoral Feminism", which refers to those pseudo-feminists who ask their boyfriends for lipstick and bags on Valentine's Day while shouting feminist slogans. , the "feminist rights" in their mouths may just be based on the privilege of taking advantage of women's status.
From "Miss", from "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and from the American TV series "Game of Thrones", we can justify the name of feminism. The lady completely crushes the old man in terms of IQ and EQ, while Zhen Huan and Long Mu use their own power and strategy Competing with men in the game of dividing up territory is the real feminism. Everything you desire must be obtained through your own efforts. If you demand feminism, you must not try to use gender weakness as an excuse to take advantage in the competition. Feminism is not a privilege, nor does it have to stand on the opposite side of men. Feminism is equal rights.
In the movie "Miss", the two heroines are the main characters, and the other men are foils. Women in real life should also do it. Don't be an accessory to a man, don't try to link the standard of happiness with a man's favor. A man and love for you should be an embellishment, an icing on the cake, rather than a helping hand. Of course, if some women's pursuit is to wash their hands and make soup three times a day, we should also respect them. There is no right or wrong in life choices, only different positions.
In Beauvoir's "Second Sex", it discusses the different occupations of women in different ages and the changes in women's social identity since ancient times, and what I understand from this is that women are first of all a natural person, a social person, and then It is a woman, so the final foothold of feminism, I think, should be human rights. A person's rights in this world should not be differentiated by their gender or race. What we pursue should be a world free from gender discrimination, racism, and sexual orientation discrimination. No matter whether you are a man or a woman, or whether the person you love is a man or a woman, you will not be blamed. That's why I said that the destination of the ship in the last scene of "Miss" is called "Freedom", and our journey is the sea of stars.
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